Where does “nuageux” come from?

nuageux (French) comes from French nuage, from French nue, from Middle French nue, from Old French nue, from Vulgar Latin nuba, from Latin nūbēs, from Proto-Indo-European (s)newdʰ- — to cover.

nuageux (French): cloudy

Definitions

  1. cloudy

Ancestry of “nuageux”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchnuagecloud; first-person singular present indicative...
2Frenchnuefeminine singular of nu; cloud
3Middle Frenchnuecloud
4Old Frenchnuecloud
5Vulgar Latinnuba—
6Latinnūbēscloud
7Proto-Indo-European(s)newdʰ-to cover

Words derived from “nuageux”

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